The first week of World of Warcraft: Midnight sets the tone for your entire expansion journey. Instead of rushing blindly to max level or spamming dungeons, a smart launch plan ensures you unlock key systems, secure early power, and build long-term progression without wasting time. Here’s a clear and efficient roadmap to help you make the most of Week One and enter Season 1 fully prepared, shared by The Comeback Kids on their YouTube channel. By the end of this guide, you’ll know what to prioritize, what to ignore, and what actually matters long term for your character and account.
1. Lock in Your Professions Immediately
The very first thing you should do when you log into Midnight is choose your professions. Do not wait until max level.
Why This Matters
Profession Knowledge is time-gated and permanent. Every knowledge point compounds over the course of the entire expansion. If you delay by even one week, you are technically behind.
Beyond long-term power, there’s also massive gold potential:
- Week One = highest demand & lowest supply
- Players are spending aggressively for power advantages. Flasks, potions, crafted gear, enchants, and reputation buffs—everything sells at a premium early on.
Besides, if you level professions while questing, you progress two systems simultaneously instead of backtracking later.
Hidden Advantage - Free Knowledge Points: Across the Midnight zones, there are 24 free profession knowledge treasures you can collect simply by flying around and looting them. That’s 24 specialization points before many players even realize they exist.
Week One Rule:
- Pick professions immediately
- Gather knowledge treasures while questing
- Double-dip progression
2. Complete the Campaign While Leveling (70–80 → 90)
Your next focus is finishing the campaign across all Midnight zones. The goal is not just to sprint to 90. Your goal should also be about unlocking systems and building long-term progression. The campaign gates weekly content, world quests, endgame systems, and key progression features. If you skip or half-finish it, you’ll just have to backtrack later. So, finish each zone’s main story, clear meaningful side quests tied to renown, and avoid dungeon spamming during leveling.
By the time you hit max level, you should have full campaign completion, multiple renown levels, core systems unlocked, and a fully integrated character. If you want a faster way to get to 90 then, you can choose our WoW Power Leveling service, easy and fast.
3. Silvermoon Weeklies (Immediately at Max Level)
Once you hit max level and finish the campaign, go straight to Silvermoon and pick up Unity Against the Void weekly & Weekly reputation quest. These are critical reward anchors. Grab them first as you can complete them passively while doing other activities. The meta quest rewards Apex Cache (gold + upgrade currency), Bountiful Key, and Veteran gear (twice per week). This is strong pre-season gearing.
4. World Quests & Special Assignments
Open your map and scan every zone. World Quests provide reputation, gold, adventure-level gear, and Coffer Key Shards.
Key Priority: Coffer Key Shards
100 shards = 1 Bountiful Key
Bountiful Keys are essential for Bountiful Delves and Champion gear once Season 1 begins. Going into the season with zero keys is a huge setback.
Weekly Special Assignments
These higher-impact world quest objectives grant larger reputation chunks, Veteran gear (first two chests weekly), and additional keys. Do not skip them.
5. World Events (All Four Zones)
Each Midnight zone has a large-scale world event tied to renown and progression.
The Abundance Event
- 3-minute treasure dive
- Donate for scaling buffs
- Earn weekly cache + reputation
Harandar Relic Scenario
- Choose one relic weekly
- Complete a short scenario
- Warband-wide
- Rewards Reputation + weekly cache + housing items
Eversong Woods – Subfaction Choice
Choose one Silvermoon subfaction each week among Blood Knights, Farstriders, Magisters, and Shades of the Row. You can earn the currency used for Cosmetics, Recipes, housing items, and more.
It also grants you Silvermoon Court reputation.
Stormarion Assault (Voidstorm)
- Wave-based defense event
- Protect the citadel
- Earn pinnacle cache + renown
Complete all four before the weekly reset.
6. Renown Farming — The Backbone of Midnight’s Progression
Renown is the core of Midnight’s progression. You can gain rewards like mounts, cosmetics, crafting recipes, gear, Bountiful keys, crests, and housing items. All renown progress is Warband-wide.
Pro Tip: Use Contracts
Inscription contracts (purchased on Auction House) cause all world quests to grant reputation for a chosen faction. If you want to min-max early, activate one.
7. Prepare Delves & Prey
Delves are now a core solo/small group progression system.
Week One Goals:
- Complete introductory questlines
- Level Delves to current pre-season cap (Tier 3–4)
- Learn mechanics
Prey works similarly:
- Unlock in Silvermoon
- Complete introductory hunt
- Learn targeting & reward loop
You want to be fully prepared before Season 1 launches.
8. Heroic Dungeons — Use as Filler Only
This is where players go wrong. Although Heroics are spammable and they give Adventurer-level gear, they are not your primary progression engine in pre-season.
Do not:
- Ignore campaign
- Ignore renown
- Ignore world events
- Spam heroics for hours
Instead: Use heroics to target-fill weak slots. For example, you can farm specific trinkets or weapons if needed. They are supplemental—not core progression.
9. PvP Preparation (Optional Path)
Voidstorm offers PvP-based outdoor content where you can get rewards like Bloody Tokens and PvP gear. You can farm full Honor PvP gear early to prepare for PvP Season, which is not mandatory, but viable.
10. Housing & Community Engagement
Housing endeavors rotate and provide side progression, rewards, and account-wide incentives. Also, keep an eye out for the Community Engagement Quest, which grants weekly crests tied to player power.
Final Priority Checklist
- Pick professions immediately
- Collect 24 profession knowledge treasures
- Complete the full campaign while leveling
- At max level → Grab Silvermoon weeklies
- Prioritize World Quests (Renown + Key Shards)
- Complete all four weekly world events
- Farm renown strategically (use contracts)
- Finish Delve & Prey intro systems
- Use Heroics only as filler gear
- Optional: Farm PvP Honor gear
That’s your complete Week One roadmap for World of Warcraft: Midnight. If you follow this structure, you’ll enter Season 1 fully prepared—with renown progress, keys stocked, systems unlocked, and no wasted time.
